{"id":324460,"date":"2025-12-04T08:29:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324460\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:29:12","slug":"dodgers-to-re-sign-miguel-rojas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/324460\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers To Re-Sign Miguel Rojas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miguel Rojas<\/a> will play his final season as a Dodger. The World Series hero is reportedly in agreement with Los Angeles on a one-year, $5.5MM contract. Rojas, a client of Beverly Hills Sports Council, announced in October<\/a> that he would retire after the 2026 season. He\u2019ll reportedly jump right into a player development position with the Dodgers once his playing career is finished. That\u2019ll push the team\u2019s 40-man roster count to 38 once it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n

It\u2019ll be Rojas\u2019 fourth consecutive season in L.A. and his fifth as a Dodger overall. He broke into the majors with the team in 2014 but was traded to the Marlins after his rookie year. Rojas spent eight seasons in Miami, much of it as an everyday shortstop, until the Fish traded him back to the Dodgers over the 2022-23 offseason. He has worked in a utility role for the past three seasons and has been a strong contributor off the bench for Dave Roberts in the most recent two years.<\/p>\n

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Rojas owns a .273\/.328\/.404 batting line across 654 plate appearances in the past two seasons. He remains one of the toughest players in the league to strike out. Rojas is no longer an everyday shortstop but can back up Mookie Betts<\/a> while logging more time between second and third base. He remains a quality utility piece who has also been regarded as a clubhouse leader in Miami and Los Angeles. The Dodgers intend to keep him in the organization beyond his playing days, which reflects his clearly strong relationship with the coaching staff and front office.<\/p>\n

That all made it likely that the Dodgers would bring Rojas back regardless of what happened in the postseason. He then cemented himself in franchise lore and baseball history with one of the most dramatic, improbable home runs of all time.<\/p>\n

Roberts penciled Rojas into the starting lineup for Games 6 and 7 of the World Series. He came up with one out in the ninth inning of the decider against Jeff Hoffman<\/a>. With the Dodgers trailing by one, Rojas (who has never hit more than 11 home runs in a season) took Hoffman deep to left field to tie the game. It was one of the most impactful single plays ever, and the Dodgers went on to win in extras when\u00a0Will Smith<\/a> homered off\u00a0Shane Bieber<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That one swing probably doesn\u2019t have much bearing on Rojas\u2019 contract. His $5.5MM salary is narrowly above the $5MM that he made in both 2024 and \u201925. The Dodgers were very likely to bring him back to continue playing a utility role regardless. He\u2019ll offer a right-handed complement to lefty hitting\u00a0Max Muncy<\/a> and\u00a0Hyeseong Kim<\/a> around the infield. The Dodgers could look to re-sign Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a> for a similar job, though that again wouldn\u2019t leave much playing time for well-regarded prospect Alex Freeland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers have a projected payroll of $337MM for next season, according to RosterResource<\/a>. A good portion of that money is deferred, of course. Their competitive balance tax number \u2014 which adjusts for contracts\u2019 post-deferral values \u2014 sits at an estimated $319MM. They\u2019re already in the top tax bracket and pay the highest fees as three-time repeat payors, meaning they\u2019re hit with a 110% tax on any additions. They\u2019ll pay $6.05MM in taxes on this deal, bringing the overall investment to $11.55MM. That\u2019s not much by Dodgers standards, and they\u2019ll hope Rojas plays a role in becoming the first team to win three straight titles since the 1998-2000 Yankees.<\/p>\n

Daniel \u00c1lvarez-Montes of El Extrabase<\/a> first reported the signing and terms. Image courtesy of John E. Sokolowski, Imagn Images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miguel Rojas will play his final season as a Dodger. The World Series hero is reportedly in agreement…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324461,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,10165,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-324460","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-miguel-rojas","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}